Word: views
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...reports and the actions of the Overseers do affect undergraduates and younger alumni. The most significant example of this is the Overseer's role in selecting a new president of Harvard. Especially in view of events on other campuses this spring, it would be most undesirable for Harvard's next president to be chosen without any consideration of younger opinion. Norr's election wil help to ensure that this opinion will be heard...
Rockfeller and Kennedy won the poll--both of them, you might remember, were considered completely out of the 1968 race at the time. Most students, it appeared, did not want to see political reality. The poll seemed to indicate the alienated view from which many politically active students students as well as others viewed the electoral process...
...dissaster that has done irreparable damage to students and faculty. The ugliness has spread to Harvard, Ford thinks. "A spirit of better humor existed in Faculty discussion several years ago," he says. "Then, one person would not question the morality of another who held a different point of view...
...long as there is an autonomous--and glamorous--power center (such as the Presidency today) the temptation for Congress to play mainly a sabotaging role becomes irresistible. Thus members of Congress quite honestly think they are doing a public service when they view their task in the governing process as that of a careful watchdog over a Presidency that continually threatens to get carried away with itself...
Since Robert Kennedy entered the presidential race three months ago, he rallied millions of voters to an alternate view of these questions. From the start, there was little substantive difference between Kennedy and his rival in the primaries, Eugene McCarthy, and their agreement was driven home by the televised debate a week ago. Together, as Kennedy pointed out after his defeat in Oregon, they swamped Humphrey-Johnson stand-in tickets in every primary. McCarthy workers who have shocked the pundits twice already this year should redouble their efforts to win the nomination. Kennedy's supporters now should join in that...